{"id":96552,"date":"2025-08-26T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96552\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:01:08","slug":"uk-households-warned-not-to-stockpile-item-ahead-of-170-price-hike-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96552\/","title":{"rendered":"UK households warned not to stockpile item ahead of 170% price hike in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK households using the weight loss jab Mounjaro have been warned against switching to black market sellers or bulk buying.\"UKUK households using the weight loss jab Mounjaro have been warned against switching to black market sellers or bulk buying.<\/p>\n

UK households have been warned not to stockpile an item ahead of a price hike. UK households using the weight loss jab Mounjaro have been warned against switching to black market sellers or bulk buying.<\/p>\n

Eli Lilly, which makes Mounjaro, recently announced plans to increase the price of the medication in the UK by as much as 170% from September. Henry Gregg, the chief executive of the National Pharmacy Association (NPA), said: \u201cWe\u2019d urge patients to avoid bulk ordering Mounjaro as well as buying the medication at massively reduced prices.<\/p>\n

\u201cBulk ordering can have a significant impact on supply and pose a potential risk to patient safety. We\u2019d also urge patients to avoid unlicensed sellers, who may be selling fake medication or medication that does not meet UK safety standards.<\/p>\n

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\u201cInstead, we\u2019d encourage them to speak to their prescriber, who can support them with any concerns they may have and provide them with the safe care they need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graham Thoms, the chief executive of Pharmadoctor, a provider of clinical service packages to pharmacists, said: \u201cThe main query we are receiving from pharmacists is asking Pharmadoctor for guidance how to safely switch patients from Mounjaro to Wegovy should Mounjaro become price inhibited for patients.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur response is that would not be clinically appropriate.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand from those discussions that our partner pharmacies will need to purchase Mounjaro at the new higher prices from September, but will be able to claim back a rebate at the end of the month so long as they pass on the discount to patients,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know with some of my patients, [who] were already struggling with the current prices, that it would be really difficult for them to then, at such short notice, to be able to implement or budget for those kind of changes,\u201d a second said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve benefited from the medication, but they don\u2019t necessarily sit in the remit of the NHS<\/a> patients that are funded for it, because obviously, the NHS can\u2019t fund for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

One customer said: \u201cI think the way they\u2019ve gone about it is really bad. You\u2019re meant to gradually build up your dose, so to introduce price increases at such short notice will mean people who stop mid course are likely to put weight back on rapidly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI might switch to a cheaper alternative but I expect I\u2019ll face disappointment once I stop taking Mounjaro.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK households using the weight loss jab Mounjaro have been warned against switching to black market sellers or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490,3285,10894],"class_list":{"0":"post-96552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-nhs","13":"tag-your-money"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}